January 2011
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The Week In TV 30/01/2011
30 Rock, Season 5, Episode 12: Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning A mixed bag that, albeit in fits and starts, continued 30 Rock’s uptick in its fifth season.  Much of the episode revolved around Jack filming a celebrity fund-raising event for an unnamed future disaster, which descended into the sort of glorious silliness that the show does so well.  Not only were we treated to a Robert...
Jan 31st
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The week in TV 23/01/2011
30 Rock, Season 5, Episode 11: Mrs. Donaghy A pleasant return from 30 Rock, if not exactly inspired.  In the story’s most fruitful storyline, a mistake at Jack and Avery’s wedding sees Jack married to Liz, which leads Liz to blackmail Jack into giving TGS more money before she signs the divorce papers.  This led to a sweet resolution whereby they are reminded that - sex aside -...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 16th
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Animal Kingdom
An absolute cracker of a film, David Michod’s Australian crime drama is as taut, tense and rich as anything you’re likely to see from the US this year (and you won’t see a misty-eyed Rebecca Hall uncovering charity money in her allotment at the end either).  When J’s (James Frecheville) mother dies of an overdose, he moves in with the grandmother he barely knows, Janine...
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 8th
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You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Returning to London after minor success Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s latest is a largely pointless endeavour about a group of middle-class intellectuals falling in and out of love with each other.  Loosely hung from two crumbling marriages - that of flailing writer Roy (Josh Brolin) and Sally (Naomi Watts) and recently divorced Alfie (Anthony Hopkins), whose ex-wife Helena...
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky’s latest possesses everything you might expect from one of his film’s.  It’s gruelling, dramatic to the point of hysteria, pushes its point home bluntly and is - perhaps more than anything he’s done previously - completely riveting.  Natalie Portman plays Nina, a timid ballet dancer in New York who, cowed by her mother (Barbara Hershey, taking it too far)...
Jan 1st
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